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This post is about alternative schools in India, with a focus on Krishnamurti schools, the advantages and the disadvantages-particularly from the point of view of my experience and [...]
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Alternative Schools in India; Some advantages and Disadvantages
Posted in Children, Desi Pundit, Education, tagged Alternative Schools in India, Krishnamurti Schools on September 27, 2009 | 53 Comments »
Some Books for a Children’s Library
Posted in Books, Children, Desi Pundit, Fiction, Literature, Poetry, tagged Children's Books on September 18, 2009 | 59 Comments »
This is an updated version of a post I wrote some time ago, when two people were thinking of starting an NGO in Calcutta for underprivileged children and wanted recommendations for children’s books.
We lived in a tiny flat for most of my childhood and it overflowed with my parents’ papers (they are both in [...]
V is for Veena
Posted in Carnatic Music Theory-Notes to Myself, Desi Pundit, India, Music, tagged Baha'uddin Dagar, Been, Carnatic music, Chitravina, Dhrupad, Dr. Mustafa Raza, Gottuvadyam, Hindustani music, Jayanthi Kumaresh, N Ravikiran, Pandit Lalmani Misra, Rudra Veena, Saraswati, Saraswati Veena, Sitar, Tanpura, Ustad Asad Ali Khan Sahib, Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, Veena, Veena Dhanammal, Vichitra Veena, Vina on February 9, 2009 | 9 Comments »
This follows on from T is for Tanpura not Sitar; it’s Good to Know the Difference and S is for Sitar and Surbahar. The intention of these three posts is to help people tell the difference between these instruments, primarily because the Tanpura is the most fundamental instrument of Indian classical music and is often [...]
Left, Right, Centre, Pseudo-Secular: The Mangalore Pub Incident
Posted in Desi Pundit, Human Rights, India, Media, Men, News, Pet Peeves, Politics, Religion, Women, tagged Big Media, Mangalore, Men, Muthalik, Ram Sene, Women, Yeduryappa on February 6, 2009 | 11 Comments »
In the aftermath of the attack on the women in the pub in Mangalore, there have been some blog posts and articles protesting against the “secular” media’s characterisation of the Ram Sene as a Hindu Taliban, and of what happened as the “Talibanisation” of India. According to one blogger, the “liberal left” have gone into [...]
T is for Tanpura not Sitar; it’s Good to Know the Difference
Posted in Carnatic Music Theory-Notes to Myself, Desi Pundit, Music, tagged Ashwini Bhide Deshpande, Bhajan, Carnatic music, Dhrupad, Hindustani music, Khayal, Miraj, Sitar, Sruti Box, Tambura, Tanjore, Tanpura, Tanpuri, Ustad H. Sayeeduddin Dagar, Veena, Vidya Subramanian, Vina on January 19, 2009 | 18 Comments »
Today I’m going to write about Tanpuras (or Tamburas), and in subsequent posts, about Sitars and Veenas because these instruments are often confused with each other. In my highly prejudiced opinion, every Indian who is able, i.e. has access to this knowledge, should know the difference between these instruments. The Tanpura is the backbone of [...]
The Survivors’ View on Domestic Violence
Posted in Desi Pundit, India, Law, Men, Women, tagged Domestic Violence, Men, Women on January 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Recently Terri’s Mom wrote a post Potable Poison describing the sadness of seeing men drink themselves to death in India and the suffering of their wives, who are at the receiving end of a lot of abuse. The Mad Momma also had a post on Domestic Violence.
The question arises, time and again, “why do [...]
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